Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and which things have changed us irreversibly as people.
The only thing worse than Donald Trump being an actual contender for the position of President of the United States is the thought of facing down that reality while eating a hot dog. My beloved Mey Rude, correct about so many things (most things, in fact) is so wrong about hot dogs. Also wrong about them is: Riese Bernard. Why, just a few weeks ago I explained on an A+ podcast why everyone should not eat hot dogs, and Riese went right out to Kroger and bought hot dogs and ate them for a week! Let me save you from this fate, my children. Below are 27 4th of July recipes and NONE of them are hot dogs. And I covered it all, even the booze, so you do not have to do it. You do not have to eat a hot dog this Indepence Day.
All-American Side Dishes
Grilled Corn
Barbecue Deviled Eggs
Roasted Sweet Potato and Okra Salad
Watermelon With Feta
Spicy Watermelon Soup
Flamin’ Hot Cheeto Mac and Cheese
Vegan Potato Salad
All-American Main Dishes
American Flag Pizza
Berry Grilled Cheese
BBQ Planked Salmon
Double Barbecue Bacon Chicken
Cheeseburger Sliders
Turkey Burger With Lemon Mayo
Steak and Potatoes
Grilled Ribs with Cherry Coke BBQ Sauce
Orange Grilled Beer Can Chicken
Vegan Black Bean Burger
Vegan Grilled Tofu and Squash
All-American Desserts
Patriotic Ice Cream Cones
American Flag Cake
Cherry Berry Shortcake Stars
Vegan Strawberry Pie
All-American Booze
Boozy Patriotic Snow Cones
Red, White and Blue Boozy Slushies
Patriotic Champagne Spritzer
A Good Ol’ Fashioned Beer From a Female Helmed Brewery
Canadian here, so I won’t be celebrating 4th of July, but I’d still love to try to make that amazing-looking flag cake!
If you made a Canadian flag version, would you replace the blueberry sections with another kind of red berry?
Haha, unfortunately the maple leaf in the middle of our flag probably wouldn’t lend itself to such a cake. I think that I’d be better off just making some nondescript red and white dessert.
Well damn, I stand corrected.
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As an American, I like the flag cake and pizza. As a Texan, I LOVE all the Barbecue recipes. As a Latina, I screamed out like a fan girl getting a kiss from Joan Jett when I saw the grilled corn aka ELOTES! Put some butter, cream or mayonnaise, queso fresco and top it off with valentina sauce and you will want to slap your momma into Bastille day. We need more grilled corn in our lives.
Truly, the best summer food of all.
Skinny Dip(ping) in beer? What an intoxicating idea!
MAC AND CHEETOS. probably a little nasty and definitely over indulgent. god bless the usa
heather how on board are you with a hot dog related ANECDOTE
ok then here goes: my friend as a child had ear problems and every time she heard her last name, howard, she thought it was hot dog. she thought for several years her last name was hot dog.
oh my god, tell me that story every week.
This is amazing.
I dunno, Heather… these look great, but none sound as easy as a hot dog.
Oh my goodness @ most of these. I was wondering how they made the pepperoni on that pizza blue until I looked at the recipe and saw that they were purple potatoes.
You saved me trouble of buying blue food dye. But the more I think about it, the more I want to dye pepperoni other colors instead of buying more potatoes.
I WANT ALL OF THESE THINGS
I’m Canadian, so the 4th of July and associated foods means nothing to me, but I found this dialogue re: hotdogs between Mey and Heather hilarious.
That Skinny Dip beer would go great with hot dogs.
You decry hot dogs, and offer up watermelon soup as an alternative? For the first time ever, I have to say that I just can’t with you right now, Heather Hogan. Watermelon soup? Watermelon SOUP?! Watermelon. Soup. *furrows brow*
Thank you for reminding me of the best week of my life!
heather you’re my favorite person, place and/or thing in the world